Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Singapore and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Fugazi to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Bush Tetras,
Al Stewart,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Golliwogs,
Q65,
John Coltrane,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faraquet,
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Sherman,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
Ten City,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Association,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harmonia,
Derrick May,
Tres Demented,
Pylon,
The Human League,
Urselle,
The Monks,
Yazoo,
Anakelly,
the Soft Cell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minor Threat,
Das Ding,
Trumans Water,
The Fuzztones,
Joe Smooth,
D'Angelo,
Todd Rundgren,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Junior Murvin,
Monks,
Dawn Penn,
Young Marble Giants,
Little Man,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
The Fall,
Depeche Mode,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Danielle Patucci,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Royal Trux,
Davy DMX,
Jawbox,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Basic Channel,
Warsaw,
Hoover,
The Neon Judgement,
The Durutti Column,
Grauzone,
Main Source,
The American Breed,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.